Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc/proc_info: update support for vdev stats

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 10/12/2018 12:35 PM, Vipin Varghese wrote:
> With the latest release, support for vdev ethernet devices like pcap,
> tun and tap are been added. Hence collecting statistics using proc-info
> is possible now.

This support is enabled when device shared between primary & secondary. The
capability to share virtual devices added that is correct, but still user may
prefer to use virtual device as process only.
Not sure if it worth mentioning stats retrieving supported when virtual device
is shared between processes, what do you think?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst
> index d5b5ed6a6..f62177dba 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/tools/proc_info.rst
> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Limitations
>    mismatch in PMD library arguments can lead to undefined behaviour and results
>    affecting primary application too.
>  
> -* Stats retrieval using ``dpdk-procinfo`` is not supported for virtual devices like PCAP and TAP.
> +* Stats retrieval using ``dpdk-procinfo`` is supported for virtual devices like PCAP, TUN and TAP.
>  
>  * Since default DPDK EAL arguments for ``dpdk-procinfo`` are ``-c1, -n4 & --proc-type=secondary``,
>    It is not expected that the user passes any EAL arguments.
>